What's your favorite online store system?

MikePT

Hello folks,

I'd love to read your opinion. What's your favorite online store system, and why?

Thank you in advance for your input!

ztec

OpenCart, it has the best looking templates, pretty much all the plugins you need & it's easy to use for the client.

Licensecart

Blesta and then WooCommerce

MikePT

@Licensecart,

Blesta, but it's not the sort of online store I'm looking for :P

@ztec indeed, looks pretty good!

n1kko

+1 for Opencart

raindog308

Not my thing but I hear Magento is popular. Never admin'd it personally. It does have a community edition.

MikePT

@raindog308 said:
Not my thing but I hear Magento is popular. Never admin'd it personally. It does have a community edition.

Yeah I don't like Magento much as well!

Licensecart

@MrGeneral said:
Licensecart,

Blesta, but it's not the sort of online store I'm looking for :P

Haha never said what you was selling but I have customers using Blesta for selling office space.

MikePT

@Licensecart said:
Haha never said what you was selling but I have customers using Blesta for selling office space.

Hehehe, well, for online stores, as in, selling products, not services :P

danitfk

Prestashop , Simple to use. Tons of features.

MikePT

@danitfk said:
Prestashop , Simple to use. Tons of features.

Thanks, already tried it as well :P

jar

@raindog308 said:
Not my thing but I hear Magento is popular. Never admin'd it personally. It does have a community edition.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone

It's actually really good but I've never met a customer that knew how to make it less than horrible. Default settings are pretty bad. Varnish + disable logging, that's the key.

MikePT

@Jar said:
I wouldn't wish it on anyone

Good thing: I hate it :P

earl

I had zencart running for a good couple of years.. I really liked it, pretty easy to find solutions on Google fix all your problems.. not sure how it is now..

The couple of times I did try Magento, it felt really heavy on resources, and that was a new install.

ztec

WooCommerce is great too, but you'd have to make sure your client understands why it doesn't look 100% like a webshop backend.

MikePT

Thank you for your suggestion folks!

@ztec certainly

michaelphan

opencart then woocommerce I've developed and designed more than 500 website for my customers using Opencart ) and more than 50 using woocommerce

hdpixel

X-cart, CS-Cart, OpenCart, WP with WooCommerce (less 50 products).

MikePT

Thank you for your advice folks, I've investigated all the e-commerce systems you mentioned, I appreciate your help!

leapswitch

Magento is the best for hosts. Client who can get by on shared, needs a VPS. Someone whose site can work fine on a VPS, needs a dedicated. Magento is built for more money for hosts :P

MikePT

@leapswitch said:
Magento is the best for hosts. Client who can get by on shared, needs a VPS. Someone whose site can work fine on a VPS, needs a dedicated. Magento is built for more money for hosts :P

Yes certainly, however, I've never liked Magento much (I might change my opinion as I haven't tried it lately), I'm considering to go ahead for OpenCart though!